Quotes About Bravery

It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.

A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.

Some of this book—perhaps too much—has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it—and perhaps the best of it—is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Sooner or later even the fastest runners have to stand and fight.

Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand. All the rest is darkness.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

What I know now is that gallant young men rarely get pussy. Put it on a sampler and hang it in your kitchen.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not ever. Doing that's about the most dangerous thing a person can do, I think, because a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else, even dying.

I am afraid, but I have been afraid before. All he can take from me is what I would have to give up someday anyhow—my life. I will not let him break me down. I will not let him make me less than I am, if I can possibly help it.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

The rest of it - and perhaps the best of it - is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will.

And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not.

Climb aboard, Jonesy. I'm going to send you up where the air is rare and the view is much more than fair.

For Gilead and the Calla! he roared. Now, gunslingers! Now, you Sisters of Oriza! Now, now! Kill them! No Quarter! Kill them all!

After that we're going to be heroes. Not because we want to, but because there are no other options.

Try to write your own story. Consider writing about yourself, or rewriting something in your life you wished had gone differently. Then, be brave and share with someone what you've written. How did this process feel for you?

Pon distancia y trata de mantener la sonrisa. Sintoniza un rock and roll en la radio y ve hacia toda la vida que existe con todo el valor que puedas reunir y toda la fe que logres invocar. Sé leal, sé valiente, aguanta. El resto es oscuridad.

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will. Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.